Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-01-08

Lafayette was major general at the
age of twenty.
Beaver overcoats at S2.49 are adver-
tised in New York.
Patti is to eat her Christmas pudding
on the Rio Grande.
Secretary Swank's report shows S00,-
600 tons of American steel rails order
ed for delivery in 1887.
A new two.cent postage stamp has
been designed, to take the place of the
present head of Washington.
There are 1,071 Young Mems
Christian Associations in the United
States, with 140, 600 members.
Various shades of green are respec-
lively called lizard, serpent, frog, moss
and cabbage green this season.
A butcher in Butternut, Wis. found
$5 gold piece in the stomach of q
steer which he killed last week.
The oldest inhabtant of Block Island
IA. dead. His name was Isaac Church,
anS,.he was 100 years and 9 months
old. y.
Girls Who want calico Mother Hub.
bards should not make mistake and
apply at the postoifice window for
stamped wrappers.
A large insurance company of Paris
has issued confidential circular to its
agents warning them against insuring
persons who are in the habit of dyelng
their hair or boards.
Wife-I do wish you would join ihe
church, Sam. Wicked Skcptic Good
heavens We quarrel enough as it is.
If were to become a Christian we
would quarrel all the time.
"Aw, pardon me, Edith, I've thuteh
cold in my head; and when I've
cold, I'm always stupid, don tchewno." ;"
Poor Arthur, how sad! you seem al
ways to have this affiction.
A damsel gave this as an excuse for
the size of her pedal extremties: She
had rheumatism when child, and her
mother rubbed her legs the wrong way,
and rubbed her calves into her feet.
What wonderful power of adaph-
bility women possess!' cries sage
writer. This refers to the girl who
adores ice-cream and at the same time
is passionately fond of fried oysters.
A stranger at Pine Bluff, Ark, who
was robbed on the highway of $40,
followed up the case, found the Chief
of Police at the other end of it, and
had that official convicted of the crime.
The new volume of HI. II. Bancroft's
History of the Pacific States of North
America" being the twenty-fourth, is
history of Oregon and the first
volume of that history 1t is just ready.
Florida is sending fresh cucumbers
to market; in Minnesota the ice is thick
enough to bear teams; in California
grapes are being gathered and Maine
is shivering under several inches OF
snow
An indianapolis contractor who re
pairs mail bags, made a mistake of two
cents in footing bill, and Uncle Sam
kept him out of $3.50 for six months
and put him to $500 costs as the
result.
The public has paid for Appleton's
american Cyclop@dia" in its various
editions, including annual supplements,
nearly $l5,0OO,000. The number Of
sets sold is 1879, 900, aggregating 2,6o0,-
600 volumes.
A physician having directed one OF
his patients to battle a wound in tepid
water, the patient sent his little girl TO
the drug store with note saying:
please sell bearer one-half pint of
tepid water
A female school teacher in one on
the southern counties of Illinois was
presented with fence rail, a tin can
filled with tar and small bag of
feathers by wrathful parent OF one OF
her pupils whom she had punished.
A man advertised for the worst dog
IN the city. His idea was that the peo'
Pile were so fond of their eogs that
they would not bring a single animal to
him. But he lest his bet. Thousands
called, each bringing his neighbours
dog.
England, it is stated, now imports
from Russia 5, 900, 600 hundred weights
of wheat against 100000 fifteen
years ago. In the same interval the
import from America has increased
from 10000, 900 hundred weights to
20,OO0,0 900.
A scientist says that woman who
weighs 100 pounds here would weigh
2,700 pounds if on the surface of the
sun. But not one woman in thou
sand will start on journey to the sun
in order to increase her weight Now,
if it were the moon it would be differ
ent. There is man in that orb.
1t was a South Boston school boy
whose bad behavior had led the mas
ter to depart from his accustomed rule,
and resort to a fiogging. The next
day the boy drought a note. y The
master read 1t, as follows: Licking
don't do this boy no 90 od-talk TO
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